So sprach �J. Grant� am 2002-01-28 um 15:44:32 +0900 :
> I just checked, and rename does not seem to support renaming files such
> as pic1, pic2 -> pic1.jpg pic2.jpg etc? or does it?
>
> it seems to require something to swap, the from option but if I want to
> add at the end I can not.
>
> I think there are better ways to do this using a bash script and mv, i
> am sure others have done this already.
Well, I don't use rename, so I'd suggest to have a look at my example
with the regexp again. But in the case of pic1, pic2 -> pic1.jpg,
pic2.jpg it's even simpler:
for f in *; do
mv $f $f.jpg
done
You can type this exactly like above on the shell prompt.
Alexander Skwar
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